spat

But after circling a few times, the shark spat out the bait, leaving fishermen on the pier stunned.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026

But some smaller enterprises fear they could be put out of business without a resolution to the trade spat.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026

He is not alone in having then been chewed up and spat out at Real Madrid.

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026

These are not neutral bystanders being swept into a media spat.

From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2026

I spat into the dirt and stumbled forward, blindly reaching out to feel my way when the closeness of the trees allowed the darkness to circle in on me.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

In a reminder of the delicate nature of their ties, diplomats between the two countries last week spatted over a South Korean lawmaker’s visit to disputed islets located in the waters between the two countries.

From Seattle Times ● May 6, 2023

But later on the third night, Lady Beatty spatted with Frankie and drove off in a Huff.*

From Time Magazine Archive

The rift began, bleated keyhole journalism's grand old man, when ex-Bootlegger-Speakeasier Billingsley, whose flossy Stork Club got much of its floss from Winchell's ceaseless plugs, spatted with Winchell over a pack of cigarettes.

From Time Magazine Archive

They had tried, these attendants, to expound, from time to time, on various objects to the spatted or braceleted clients of Scott and Fowles.

From Time Magazine Archive

Their rope-soled shoes tapped and spatted on the pavement.

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway

I’m sure if I looked hard enough, I could find some subsection of the dinosaur community where people are spatting over science or fighting about feathers and scales.

From Salon ● Apr. 12, 2026

If an argument were a tennis match, many of us would tear right through the net during a frenzy of back-and-forth spatting.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2022

Nelson, a Flower Mound Republican, said Monday of her House counterparts, “We’re not spatting with them.”

From Washington Times ● Apr. 13, 2015

Thanks to the magic of Twitter, we can now experience all of the spinning, spatting, and snarking from both sides of the aisle in real time.

From Slate ● Jan. 28, 2014

After breakfast she spent two hours in the kitchen with patient Nancy, spatting out little ginger cakes, and picking dirt from the cracks of the floor with a pin.

From The Twin Cousins by Sophie May